tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post5531640102386559213..comments2015-08-01T20:00:30.377-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Samuel Russell Trevett’s Story of Bunker HillJ. L. Bellnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-45704898142817187312012-07-19T23:26:19.814-05:002012-07-19T23:26:19.814-05:00Understood, thank you!Understood, thank you!Derek "A Staunch Whig" Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16966961365623936407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-90838823602308977122012-07-19T22:35:04.953-05:002012-07-19T22:35:04.953-05:00As this posting discusses, we don’t have a lot of ...As this posting discusses, we don’t have a lot of first-hand sources about what Trevett and his company did. I wrote “apparently” to indicate that doubt, but basically believe that the conditions of the battle dictated that grape or canister shot would have been most effective against the advancing British lines. The accounts of Putnam firing cannon mention those types of shot.J. L. Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-75336176581248007472012-07-19T14:42:23.875-05:002012-07-19T14:42:23.875-05:00I&#39;ve not seen any reference of Trevett firing ...I&#39;ve not seen any reference of Trevett firing Grape, or I missed it. Do you have a source perchance? Always trying to perfect &quot;1775&quot; until I get a publisher. Thanks for the posts on the artillery. They are ignored too much in modern books, but clearly, it was a big deal, as they were are quickly court-martialed afterwards.Derek "A Staunch Whig" Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16966961365623936407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-72465229089924764462012-07-09T16:34:01.606-05:002012-07-09T16:34:01.606-05:00There&#39;s a big memorial to Col. Richard Gridley...There&#39;s a big memorial to Col. Richard Gridley in the Canton cemetery, erected in the late 1800s. The major proponent of that memorial was Daniel Huntoon, who wrote a lot of articles about Gridley in historical and Masonic magazines and in a local history. Hunton also overstated Gridley&#39;s rank (major general instead of colonel) and downplayed the evidence that Washington had lost confidence in him by the fall of 1775. So one reason the Gridley name retains a good reputation is literally selective memory.<br /><br />Another reason is that all authors, including Huntoon, put all the blame on Scarborough Gridley, criticizing the colonel only for too much paternal faith in his son. (Sometimes Capt. Samuel Gridley, mistaken for the colonel&#39;s son, also gets a little blame.) <br /><br />Col. Gridley did serve in three wars over thirty years. Unlike his son, he did go onto the Charlestown peninsula during the Battle of Bunker Hill, suffering a wound from the shelling. So those qualities allow people to admire Gridley for personal bravery even if his administration had a lot of flaws.J. L. Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-64254630357951603912012-07-09T14:21:01.827-05:002012-07-09T14:21:01.827-05:00So how come historically the Gridleys come off sme...So how come historically the Gridleys come off smelling like a rose? There are memorials to them in their hometown, for example. Perhaps I missed something?rfullernoreply@blogger.com